About

Exhibit text and show globe photography by Jessica Patton.

Exhibit graphic design and web development by Sherman Paggi.

Photographed showglobes are from the private collection of Dr. C. Wayne Weart.

Exhibit curated by Jennifer Welch.

Please cite this electronic exhibition as a whole as "Mysterious Show Globes of the Apothecary," an online exhibition of the Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina Library. Charleston, SC: Waring Historical Library, 2011. URL: http://waring.library.musc.edu/exhibits/showglobes/

Please direct questions and comments to the Waring Historical Library

Image acknowledgements:

• Bust of Julius Caesar. Image courtesy of Andreas Wahra.
• Barnegat Lighthouse. Image courtesy of Andrew Bossi.
• The Great Plague in London, 1665. Etching by A. Smith, 1810, after R. Smirke. Image courtesy of the Wellcome Library.
• Punch, or the London Charivari, March 1, 1922, volume 163, page 170. Image courtesy of the University of Toronto Libraries.